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(n)
Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
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(v)
(transitive) To think about seriously.
(transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's mind.
(transitive) To develop; to form in the mind; to imagine.
(metonymic) A religious or spiritual belief system.
(with on or upon, formerly also with in) to trust; to have confidence in; to depend.
To straighten (something that is supposed to be straight).
Mental acceptance of a claim as true.
Misspelling of advise. [(transitive) To give advice to; to offer an opinion to, as worthy or expedient to be followed.]
(adv)
(informal) Given the circumstances; all in all; all things considered.
(transitive) To match (something or someone which one currently perceives) to a memory of some previous encounter with the same person or thing.
The relative likelihood of an event happening.
(transitive) To assume or suggest to be true (without proof); to take for granted, to suppose.
(transitive) To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of; to be certain that.
(transitive, intransitive) To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.
To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof.
(transitive) To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.
To set a high value on; to regard with respect or reverence.
(adj)
In a state of believing, especially from evidence but not necessarily.
(transitive) To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
(ambitransitive) To assume or assert tentatively on uncertain grounds.
(intransitive) To make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture.
(copulative) To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.
To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
To intend.
(transitive, archaic) To have or express as an opinion.
(transitive, of a proposition) To have as a necessary consequence; to lead to (something) as a consequence.
To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind.
A Scottish or Irish mountain or high peak.
(transitive) To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
Tending to suggest or imply.
(ditransitive) To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account.
(transitive) To explicitly mention (something) as a possibility for consideration, often to recommend it.
(intransitive) To be in harmony about an opinion, statement, or action; to have a consistent idea between two or more people.
(modal) Without doubt, certainly.
To make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence.
To calculate roughly, often from imperfect data.
Very sure of something; positive.
(transitive) To view as valuable.
(transitive) To become aware of; to observe.
(transitive) To become aware of, through the physical senses, to see; to understand.
To agree (in action or opinion); to have a common opinion; to coincide; to correspond.
(transitive) To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through reasoning and verbal influence.
(countable, computing) A message, alert, or signal displayed by a system or application to inform the user of an event, update, new message, etc.
(ambitransitive) To predict or believe that something will happen
(transitive) To suggest a plan, course of action, etc.
(intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
(degree) To a given extent or degree.
(transitive) To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
(transitive) To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc.
To demand ownership of.
(transitive) To know of (something) before it happens; to expect.
(intransitive) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.
A fact that shows that something exists or may happen.
To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.
To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.
(transitive, sometimes with 'of') To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.
(transitive) To give formal consent to; make officially valid, sign off on.
(transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
(transitive, ditransitive) To convey by speech; to say.
(transitive) To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:)
(transitive) To direct the attention of (someone toward something)
(transitive, law) To find guilty, as a result of legal proceedings, or (informal) in a moral sense.
(transitive) To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
To conceive or see something within one's mind; to imagine or envision.
(transitive) To look at.
(colloquial) To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause
(transitive) To plead in favour of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.
To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).
(intransitive or with 'that' clause or 'to' infinitive) To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance.
(transitive) To pronounce.
(heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
(transitive) To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
(transitive) To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
(transitive) To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on (a person or matter).
To use biological senses: to either see, hear, smell, taste, or feel.
To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of.
To collect normally separate things.
(transitive, ditransitive) To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods.
(intransitive) To debate, disagree, or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints; to controvert; to wrangle.
(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
(transitive, intransitive) To call back (a situation, event, etc.) to one's mind; to remember; to recollect.
(intransitive) To be in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
(ambitransitive) To be undecided about; to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, to question.
(transitive) To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).
(transitive) To grasp or grip.
(transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
(chiefly US) To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.
(transitive) To be afraid of (something or someone); to consider or expect (something or someone) with alarm.
To manipulate a blank key within a lock so as to mark it with impressions of the shape of the lock, which facilitates creation of a duplicate key.
Very excited or enthusiastic.
(slang, transitive) To sexually penetrate without a condom.
(intransitive) To stop either temporarily or permanently.
(intransitive) To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders.